Morrow points out in his book Questioning the Bible there’s more evidence that Jesus lived than Julius Caesar, yet no one doubts Caesar existed.

“When you’re doing history, you want early and you want eyewitnesses. And the gospel writers give you both,” Morrow explained.

“They investigated everything carefully. They have the ring of truth to them. They include embarrassing details,” he continued.

One supposition of scholars is the closer in time a writer was to events, the more likely his account is accurate.

Morrow pointed out respected biblical writers Paul and Luke interviewed the apostles and knew many others who witnessed Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection.

And the writers Peter, John, and James actually lived with Jesus.

“John said, ‘What our eyes have seen, what our ears have heard, what our hands have handled is what we’re declaring to you,'” McDowell said. “In other words, ‘We’re eyewitnesses.'”

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“But none of those, those texts that are in question, affect any central teaching of Christian doctrine or practice,” Morrow insisted.

Bock explained many of the so-called contradictions in the Bible are just different ways of telling the same story.

“And difference does not equal contradiction. It’s just difference,” Bock said. “One text may be more precise than another, but they’ll both be accurate.”

For instance, one Gospel talks about Jesus and His disciples coming upon two demoniacs in a graveyard, but another Gospel speaks of one demoniac there.

A simple explanation is one writer shared the raw fact two demoniacs were present. The other writer only mentioned the one demoniac because he wanted to concentrate on that one for a particular reason.

Another example: one Gospel says Judas hanged himself while another says he fell to the ground and his insides spilled out.

A look at the area where it’s thought Judas died has trees above and on rocky cliffs with jagged rocks below. Judas could have hanged himself and then the branch broke or the rope came unknotted and his body crashed to the rocks, splitting open.